9 Dec 2011

ROME / SOUTH SOUTH DEVELOPMENT

On the closing day of the Global South-South Development Expo 2011, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) will be presented with the South-South Cooperation Award for Leadership. FAO

Posted at: December 9, 2011 3:55 pm

Duration: 02:23

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STORY: ROME / SOUTH SOUTH DEVELOPMENT
TRT: 2.23
SOURCE: FAO 
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 9 DECEMBER 2011, ROME, ITALY

SHOTLIST:

1. Med shot, flags at the FAO headquarters in Rome 
2. Wide shot, FAO main entrance with guards
3. Med shot expo banners pan to woman and computer
4. Med shot FAO meeting staff standing next to big FAO logo pan to banners
5. Pan right, south-south cooperation brochures
6. Wide shot, Expo closing ceremony in FAO Plenary Hall
7. SOUND-UP (English) Ben Malor, Master of Ceremony:  
"The task of identifying the best solutions has not been an easy one. This year we received nominations from many strong and innovative solutions from all regions of the world." 
11. Med shot, clapping audience to close up man taking photo
12. Wide shot, Abdul Kobakiwal receives award for FAO from Tariq Ali Al-Alsani, on behalf of Nassir Abdulaziz Al-Nasser, President of the Sixty-Sixth Session of the United Nations General Assembly
13. Pan right, clapping audience
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Abdul Kobakiwal, Chief of Integrated Food Security Support Service, FAO: 
"South south cooperation - as it sounds from its name - is cooperation among developing countries of the south with each other. The basic principal of south south cooperation is solidarity. I would like to clarify and I think this is very important that I say, that south south cooperation is not a replacement of north south cooperation, but this is a complement, it completes the north and south cooperation."
15. Various shots, women looking at information computer
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Abdul Kobakiwal, Chief of Integrated Food Security Support Service, FAO: 
"Well the main objective of this expo is to bring our development partners together and those people who are involved in south south cooperation particularly like the UN agencies in order to share experiences with each other and learn from each other, in order to improve the south south cooperation, because you know that south south cooperation is now one of the most important ways of delivering technical assistance."
17. Wide shot, FAO headquarters with traffic

STORYLINE:

On the closing day of the Global South-South Development Expo 2011, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has won the South-South Cooperation Award for Leadership.

The award, made by Tariq Ali Al-Alsani, on behalf of Nassir Abdulaziz Al-Nasser, President of the Sixty-Sixth Session of the United Nations General Assembly, was received for FAO by Mr Abdul Kobakiwal, Chief of FAO's Integrated Food Security Support Service.

The award recognizes the organization's role in promoting the exchange of technical expertise and financial support in a growing trend towards cooperation among countries of the global South.

This year's Global South-South Development Expo, hosted by FAO, put the spotlight on the global food insecurity situation and looked at examples of South-South cooperation to reduce hunger and poverty.

Organized by the UN Development Program's (UNDP) Special Unit for South South Cooperation, the Expo has been an annual event since 2008, and is the first ever Expo solely from the South and for the South. It is a concrete response to the strong commitment made by the Secretary-General and the UNDP Administrator to help the global South realize its shared aspirations for achieving sustainable and equitable development through the sharing and transfer of SDSs, with the support of the donor community and the multilateral system under innovative triangular and public-private partnership (PPP) arrangements.

This year's South-South Cooperation Award for Innovation, was presented to the solution "Solar Power for Irrigation in Mozambique" jointly funded by the FAO and UNIDO.

The South-South Cooperation Award for Partnership was won jointly by the "Lao-Thai-Australia HIV Nutrition Programme" and the "Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves – Alliance".